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Genetic and environmental continuity in personality development: A meta-analysis.

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Briley, Daniel A., Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.·2014·Psychological Bulletin
DOI 10.1037/a0037091PMC PMC4152379
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The longitudinal stability of personality is low in childhood but increases substantially into adulthood. Theoretical explanations for this trend differ in the emphasis placed on intrinsic maturation and socializing influences. To what extent does the increasing stability of personality result from the continuity and crystallization of genetically influenced individual differences, and to what extent does the increasing stability of life experiences explain increases in personality trait stability? Behavioral genetic studies, which decompose longitudinal stability into sources associated with genetic and environmental variation, can help to address this question. We aggregated effect sizes from 24 longitudinal behavioral genetic studies containing information on a total of 21,057 sibling pairs from 6 types that varied in terms of genetic relatedness and ranged in age from infancy to old age. A combination of linear and nonlinear meta-analytic regression models were used to evaluate age trends in levels of heritability and environmentality, stabilities of genetic and environmental effects, and the contributions of genetic and environmental effects to overall phenotypic stability. Both the genetic and environmental influences on personality increase in stability with age. The contribution of genetic effects to phenotypic stability is moderate in magnitude and relatively constant with age, in part because of small-to-moderate decreases in the heritability of personality over child development that offset increases in genetic stability. In contrast, the contribution of environmental effects to phenotypic stability increases from near zero in early childhood to moderate in adulthood. The life-span trend of increasing phenotypic stability, therefore, predominantly results from environmental mechanisms.

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Authors
Briley, D. A., & Tucker-Drob, E. M.
ORCID
Briley, Daniel A.
Venue
Psychological Bulletin
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2014
Volume
140
Issue
5
Pages
1303-1331
ISSN
  • 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1455
DOI
10.1037/a0037091
PMC
PMC4152379
OpenAlex
W2043407490
Cited by
435
References
15
Citations by year
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FWCI
29.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (R21HD069772, T32HD007081, R24HD042849)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Keywords
personality development, heritability of personality, environmental influences on personality, genetic stability, environmental stability, lifespan development, sibling pairs, child development, adult development
MeSH terms
Environment, Genetics, Behavioral, Humans, Individuality, Personality, Personality Development, Twins

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